birtherism

“When you tie it into the question I get a lot — ‘if everyone is so unhappy with what the president has done, why don’t you impeach him?’ — and I’ll give you a real frank answer about that,” Blake Farenthold told a constituent. “If we were to impeach the president, we would probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it. But it would go to the Senate and he wouldn’t be convicted.”
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The question of presidential qualifications has never directly reached the Supreme Court. But there is a wide range of jurisprudence on the issue — which overwhelmingly favors the notion that Cruz is eligible to serve as president.
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Five years after celebrity billionaire Donald Trump and a motley assortment of conservatives raised questions about Barack Obama’s American birthplace, the shoe is on the other foot. Now, some liberals are questioning conservative Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s eligibility to serve as president because he was born in 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The question of […]
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President Ted Cruz? Only three months into his tenure as a Texas senator and Cruz has maintained a national wave of popularity in national conservative circles (and plenty of criticism from others), which has led a few to tout the Texan as a potential Republican presidential candidate for 2016. One complication: A possible “birther” controversy. […]
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